Jeanette Zaragoza De León is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Translation Program and is coordinator of the first academic program in interpreting studies in Puerto Rico at the University of Puerto Rico. With more than 15 years of experience as an interpreter and translator, her historical research centers around interpreters and translators in the 19th-century transatlantic world.

This is a fascinating case-study in how translation and interpreting shape macro and microhistories. The book is a clarion call to understand power, agency, and human rights as radically dependent on language and linguistic mediation.

• List of DefinitionsList of FiguresThe Amistad Interpreters and TranslatorsForeword by William G. Thomas IIIPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Like Water for Chocolate: The Colonial and Enslaving Background of the Amistad Case2. Translated Racial and Ethnic Issues in the Amistad Case3. The Amistad Translators4. The Recruitment5. The Transatlantic Interpreters in the Amistad Case6. The Amistad Hearings7. "The Amistad Trial" from January 7 to January 11, 1840ConclusionEpilogue: Interpreting beyond January 1840BibliographyIndex

Jeanette Zaragoza De León is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Translation Program and is coordinator of the first academic program in interpreting studies in Puerto Rico at the University of Puerto Rico. With more than 15 years of experience as an interpreter and translator, her historical research centers around interpreters and translators in the 19th-century transatlantic world.

This is a fascinating case-study in how translation and interpreting shape macro and microhistories. The book is a clarion call to understand power, agency, and human rights as radically dependent on language and linguistic mediation.

• List of DefinitionsList of FiguresThe Amistad Interpreters and TranslatorsForeword by William G. Thomas IIIPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Like Water for Chocolate: The Colonial and Enslaving Background of the Amistad Case2. Translated Racial and Ethnic Issues in the Amistad Case3. The Amistad Translators4. The Recruitment5. The Transatlantic Interpreters in the Amistad Case6. The Amistad Hearings7. "The Amistad Trial" from January 7 to January 11, 1840ConclusionEpilogue: Interpreting beyond January 1840BibliographyIndex

Jeanette Zaragoza De León is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Translation Program and is coordinator of the first academic program in interpreting studies in Puerto Rico at the University of Puerto Rico. With more than 15 years of experience as an interpreter and translator, her historical research centers around interpreters and translators in the 19th-century transatlantic world.

This is a fascinating case-study in how translation and interpreting shape macro and microhistories. The book is a clarion call to understand power, agency, and human rights as radically dependent on language and linguistic mediation.

• List of DefinitionsList of FiguresThe Amistad Interpreters and TranslatorsForeword by William G. Thomas IIIPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Like Water for Chocolate: The Colonial and Enslaving Background of the Amistad Case2. Translated Racial and Ethnic Issues in the Amistad Case3. The Amistad Translators4. The Recruitment5. The Transatlantic Interpreters in the Amistad Case6. The Amistad Hearings7. "The Amistad Trial" from January 7 to January 11, 1840ConclusionEpilogue: Interpreting beyond January 1840BibliographyIndex